Panther Power

When San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein last summer got the board of
supervisors to pass an ordinance to outlaw most handguns in the city, she
was predictably the target of potshots from the right. The local political left,
of course, was generally pleased with the antigun crusade of the moderate
mayor. But not all factions on the left: more determinedly upset than any of
the conservative gun groups was the White Panther Party, a ragtag tribe of
about a dozen communards encamped in an electric-blue town house
inyesthe Haight-Ashbury...